Planning for Failure: Why Software Breaks and How to Prepare Your Business

Software is flexible. It can be programmed to do so many things. But as The Atlantic put it, “This flexibility is software's miracle and its curse.”
You've probably heard of Murphy's Law : If anything can go wrong, it will. Software is one of those things that can go massively wrong. In a piece about the coming “ software apocalypse ,” The Atlantic shares some critical stories of software failure, such when the entire state of Washington had no 911 service, thanks to a glitch in Colorado. Or the case of a radiation-therapy machine that killed six people due to software problems.
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